Passing the baton from Group 1 (2014 – 2015) to Group 2 (2015 – 2017)

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Passing the baton from Group 1 (2014 – 2015) to Group 2 (2015 – 2017)

The Linklater RATS - Raising Awareness of Tides and Sea levels

After their pioneering first stint, the Linklater RATS are ready to pass on their learning and luck to a new group starting in September 2015 and will be making presentations to their school assemblies on 6th July 2015. These materials - Rats – Lewes Flood defence June 2015 and Schools Presentation June 2015 - are what the RATS decided to pass on to the next group of this ambitious 150 year project.

We are proud of the work and commitment shown by the first group of young people and we wish them well for the future. Josie Barton, Tamara Bowers, Sam Crawford, Alex Dam, Louis Fisher, Iris Harmer-Johnston, Joel Gayford, Dylan Ponsford, Ben Ward, Nathan Watson and Jack Woodgate.

I would also like to thank Jo Higgs from the Environment Agency and Lawrence Quinn from Priory school for their steady support and help to the group and also to boatsman David Sykes and Colin Spiller and Grant Moffatt from the Environment Agency for additional expertise.

This part of the website was launched at the National Sustainable Schools Conference held in Bristol on 2nd July 2015.

With a background in TV, teaching, academia (University of Sussex) and teacher training followed by the vision to create a community centre to promote the study of environmental change in Lewes, Dr John Parry has developed innovative approaches to engaging many different ages and groups at the Lewes Railway Land Local Nature Reserve for over 25 years.
He has had direct experience of environmental education policy making and has engaged students over many years with his mix of theoretical background, conceptual reach and practical experience on the ground.
As Director of the Railway Land Project he masterminded the development of the Linklater Pavilion - a purpose built, award-winning, hexagonal building that now serves as an environmental community hub from which the latest Railway Land Live! project will be run.